I like it. Because that means I won't have to deal with over 9000 DayZ servers showing up everytime I'm trying to find one to play on. And the DayZ community won't interfere with the real ArmA fans anymore either, this is great!

No Flaming/Flame-baiting
Keep your insults to yourself. I have edited your post so you look like a much nicer person.
Warning level +1.
Respect your fellow community members, if you can not do that just refrain from posting.

LoL..... Rocket should have bought a licence and gone off with his team of community members, now he will lose out on literally millions of doll hair. 1.008.454 unique players, doesn't seem legit, I wonder what the actual player count still playing is, that's more accurate.

Lol nice edit foxhound, that's funny. Nice to get a unexpected laugh, right after I wake up. But I think the majority of us will be happy with this news. Although they have already said it would be a stand alone game awhile back.

I have an opinion, and remember it's just an opinion. But frankly the fact that Bohemia Interactive is going from ground breaking military simulation to already done zombie game make me cringe. It might just occupy them so much that they decide to take more off of Arma 3 so its like an Arma 1.5 or worse cancel Arma 3. I don't like the smell of this but with bad comes good and vice verse, the good is that there will finally be normal servers again. Again its just my opinion and to each their own. Only time will tell if this is for better or worse.

Huge congrats to Dean on this... as a modder for many yrs now, I know just what he means about a fairytale situation with DayZ, how could BI not give him a major tip of the cap for what he did to their sales?

Sure, I don't play DayZ much myself, and I too have been a bit annoyed by the DayZ community crowding in with the Arma2 and military sim crowd and not really giving consideration to the engine or game DayZ was built on, but this is really a positive step.

Besides, you can't just let another studio announce a DayZ clone that will be for-sale and not respond in some way. Let's just hope that BI/Rocket decides to give DayZ the same kind of attention to creating the appropriate gaming experience for zombie survival as they did for military sim.

Quote :Bohemia Interactive wishes to confirm that the highly successful Arma2 mod DayZ is now being developed as a standalone PC exclusive title.
A brief announcement has been posted by Dean Hall, lead developer of the project on his tumbler website.
For anyone wishing to meet with Dean Hall during Gamescom to discuss this news and any other DayZ/Arma3/Bohemia topics there are a limited amount of meeting slots available, if you haven’t made contact for a booking please do so as soon as possible.
Also please confirm you have the updated DayZ website bookmarked: www.dayzgame.com

Dean Hall:

That’s right, this is actually happening - DayZ will be developed as a standalone game, with me as project lead, by Bohemia Interactive. This is the fairy-tale outcome for a mod that many would have said impossible four months ago.
Development and updates of the mod will continue in parallel with the development of the game, so anyone who is playing the mod now will be able to continue to do so. The project will follow the Minecraft development model; fast iterations with the community alpha available for a heavily discounted price.

I realize people will have many, many questions - but we wanted to let everyone know the announcement now. Over the coming weeks, these questions will be answered. The game will have it’s own site, www.dayzgame.com and the mod will continue at it’s present link.

“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end, but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” - Winston Churchill

The Armaholic staff would like to congratulate Dean "Rocket" Hall and his team with this achievement! Also congrats for reaching over 1 million unique players today, 1.008.454 unique players right now to be precise!
Leave your feedback for Rocket and his team in this thread on the BI forums.